Comments on: News has been changed forever by the iPhone http://gigaom.com/2012/06/29/news-has-been-changed-forever-by-the-iphone/ Fri, 24 May 2013 09:22:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Miguel Pedro http://gigaom.com/2012/06/29/news-has-been-changed-forever-by-the-iphone/#comment-860385 Wed, 04 Jul 2012 10:54:29 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=537969#comment-860385 I am sorry…but all of this is just publicity, right? Do you question anything?

]]> By: LH http://gigaom.com/2012/06/29/news-has-been-changed-forever-by-the-iphone/#comment-859701 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 13:34:59 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=537969#comment-859701 I am an “old geezer” that was mostly frustrated with being forced fed news content from TV, radio and newspapers. When I got a Mac in the late 1980′s, I realized that I could get information that was interesting to me. I am now using one newspaper, two internet radio broadcasts, and 30 web sites. No TV. We purchase many products through the internet. The internet is empowering.

]]> By: Jeff Stanger http://gigaom.com/2012/06/29/news-has-been-changed-forever-by-the-iphone/#comment-858689 Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:38:17 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=537969#comment-858689 Mathew — your point about the iPhone’s/smartphones’ effect on news consumption is precisely right. It is borne out in composite data CDI has compile on our Dashboard: http://dashboard.digitalinfo.org You can see the two overlapping “storylines” — smartphone introduction/uptake and internet news consumption. There is a major jump in online news consumption right after the iPhone was introduced. Prior to the iPhone, 21% listed “the internet” as a primary source for news. Immediately following the iPhone’s introduction, it jumped to 40% and in the process surpassed newspapers.

The two independent graphics are here:

Smartphone adoption:
http://dashboard.digitalinfo.org/trends/view/smartphone

Primary medium used for news:
http://dashboard.digitalinfo.org/trends/view/newssource

]]> By: NewsWhip http://gigaom.com/2012/06/29/news-has-been-changed-forever-by-the-iphone/#comment-858680 Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:09:27 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=537969#comment-858680 Plus we’re still in such early days… pace of innovation on mobile news consumption will pick up, if anything. There’s only been a few real killer apps to date.

]]> By: Digital Journalism http://gigaom.com/2012/06/29/news-has-been-changed-forever-by-the-iphone/#comment-858645 Fri, 29 Jun 2012 13:49:30 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=537969#comment-858645 iPhone to me is a computer which can also make phone calls. I wrote a post this week testing the iWitness service mentioned in your post, http://wp.me/p2ubV9-NO, which even got a response from the product manager of iWitness. I should say iWitness is made for news organizations, not for average mobile device users. As the biggest selling point of iWitness is to search tweets, photos and videos based on time and location, which is valuable for news organizations to local sources and contents during a breaking news.

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